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...centuries B.C., some of the finest artisans were to be found in the south, especially around Taranto, the last of the great Greek western colonies. Never before had craftsmen worked with such ingenuity or achieved greater elegance: earlier ornaments like the amber head, made 2,500 years ago (the color caption is in error), had a rather childlike innocence. The blue bronze hands may have been used to decorate some sort of handle; whatever their secret, they remain one artisan's lasting tribute to feminine grace. Of all the collections in the Taranto region, the richest was found...
This romantic novel preserves, as if in amber, all the forgotten joys of Victorian fiction. Here again are such stately nouns as provender and ablutions, adverbs like anew and perchance, adjectives like ruinated or commonsensical, once invaluable conjunctives like albeit. There are long majestic strings of rhetorical questions-"But why should sorrow be always creeping in upon joy? Why should it pierce him and find him out in this dear, beautiful place into which he had been wafted so mysteriously?" The plot-a 19th century version of the ancient tale of Tristan and Isolde-is every bit as lurid...
Still unsolved, however, is the problem of sometimes deadly glare from the white headlights of oncoming cars. A workable solution might be found by using amber-colored headlights here as well. This is done in France...
...Amber headlights would be a far less costly solution than the polarized headlights and windshields that some people have proposed...
...regard to the amber flashing turn signal on the front of new U.S. cars, why not also eliminate the confusion of all red lights in the rear? It is sometimes difficult to tell if the driver ahead is signaling or just pumping his brakes. I think many rear-end collisions would be eliminated if the colors were different. What about green for the "running" lights, amber for the turn signal, and red for the stop light...